From the Kherson Regional Art Museum named after Alexei Shovkinenko in 2022, the Russians stole the work of the great hero David Chichkan, the Museum on Instagram reports. Ukrainian artist and public figure died on August 9 from a severe wound received during the reflection of the assault on the Russian infantry in the Zaporizhzhya direction.

" The great -grandfather was killed, the works of great -grandfather were stolen, ”writes the museum in social networks.

David Chichkan came from an art dynasty. His father, Ilya Chichkan, is one of the representatives of the new wave in Ukrainian art, the grandfather Arkady Chichkan is a non -conformist artist and a participant in the “exhibition of thirteen”, great -grandfather Leonid Chichkan - professor of the Kyiv Art Institute, author of landscapes and still life, including with the motives of the Carpathians.

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The works of Leonid Chichkan were stored in the Kherson Regional Art Museum named after Alexei Shovkinenko. In the fall of 2022, before the retreat from Kherson, the Russian military loaded a significant part of the museum collection into trucks and took it out.

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Among the artist’s stolen works are the still life of Gladioli, the landscape " These canvases were subsequently identified at the Central Museum of Tauris in Simferopol, which is under the occupation control of the Russian Federation. The location of other paintings by the artist remains unknown.

The work had a museum inventory accounting, and their illegal movement is a violation of the international humanitarian law, in particular the 1954 Hague Convention on the protection of cultural values during armed conflicts. Ukrainian museum workers established the fact of abduction based on photo prisoners taken in the halls of the museum in Crimea.

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David Chichkan was a member of the dignity revolution and a famous author of political art projects. He worked in the graphics, poster, painting, street art, performance and text.

His exhibitions have repeatedly been subjected to censorship and attacks, reports Suprilne. In 2017, after the opening in Kyiv, the exposition " In 2022, Lviv damaged work from the exhibition " In 2024 in Odessa, the opening of his project "

In the Ukrainian Mariupol, which was destroyed and occupied by Russian troops, they abducted a valuable cultural relic - the " The International Antiquities Coalition added this artifact, stolen during the siege of the city in 2022, in the list of "